Annie Awards | Variety Annie Awards Disney Animation’s “Zootopia” narrowly slipped by Laika’s stop-motion “Kubo and the Two Strings” to lead the 44th Annie Awards nominations. Disney’s animal-filled hit drew 11 nods while “Kubo”… Share This Article ASIFA-Hollywood is calling for entries for the 44th annual Annie Awards. Submissions will be accepted until 5 p.m. PT on Oct. 31. through the online submission portal. There are nine production… Share This Article Joy was the primary emotion felt by Pixar after “Inside Out,” its heart-tugging journey through the mind of an 11-year-old girl, took home the top prize at the 43rd Annie Awards on Saturday night. In… Share This Article The 43rd Annie Awards are turning to pairs of presenters rather than a traditional host for its awards ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 6, at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA.

Comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates… Share This Article It’s the Year of the dragon, as DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon 2” took home the top prize at the at the 42nd annual Annie Awards honoring the best in film and TV/broadcast… Share This Article 37th Annie Awards Pt. 1 Intro Home Entertainment - YouTube 37th Annie Awards Pt. 1 Intro Home Entertainment Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on May 31, 2012 This is the first segment of ASIFA-Hollywood's webcast of the 37th annual Annie Awards. In this segment, William Shatner opens the show and Seth Green presents the Annie Award for Best Home Entertainment. The Annie Awards are animation's highest honor. The ceremony took place on February 6th, 2010 at UCLA's Royce Hall.

Category Annie Awards :: Home Members Screening of Disney Moana October24th Walt Disney Feature Animation Invites You and Your Family (ASIFA Member +3) to a Special Pre-Release Screening of MOANA A sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her jou… 'Inside Out' Dominates Annie Awards With 10 Wins – Complete Winners List Ed Catmull: the unassuming Luca Brasi of the American animation industry. Fluffydips I don’t like him. He’s kind of like an animation dictator. His wage fixing scheme and the Annie thing were awful and show how sneaky and manipulative he is. elliot Lobell at least hertzfeldt won!!! Elsi Pote The human race has an unbeatable record of allowing dictatorships doing anything to them, and now those dictatorships have translated into corporate America, allowing it write it’s own success at the expense of a market help captive under the veils of monopolies and syndicates. I’d say to those upset with this situation (including me) to form a syndicate away from the big leagues.

Think of where UFC and WWE were 10 years before they existed, and how they became the juggernauts they are (in their own terms of course). Forget the hippie approach of fighting guns with flowers, at this point in time you should fight fire with fire. Think of Straight outta Compton. There are costumers willing to walk away from the mainstream, dollars in hand to take your project or company to the moon and beyond. Help them take a look at Laika, Cartoon Salmon or Moonbot. Educate them undestand what is entertainment and what is manipulation. Stop playing at the same table that the big boys have rigged because you will never win. Trinosaur Yeah I just…. Inside Out was a good movie but not my favorite? I find myself increasingly annoyed at these type of awards because it really does seem like the Disney/Pixar awards, and it’s not because the competition is bad. There needs to be some kind of overhaul, but I doubt we’ll see it for a while. I’m pretty bitter about it. Chicken McPhee The “According to Plan” speech from The Dark Knight came to mind when watching the event last night. Disney and Pixar sweeps the show, and no one cares.

Dreamworks sweeps, and everybody loses their minds! Marc Hendry I feel nothing. Did Takahata bother showing up? Netko Inside Out was a brilliant movie, but you really can’t reward it for its subpar character designs and okay animation. I’m just baffled at how anyone can have any respect for the Annies still. Dan Wolfie Yes, and I recall, the Annies also show no love for the Looney Tunes! Come on, this is an award ceremony exclusive for animation, yet they’re always leaving Bugs and Daffy and company empty-handed! Oguchi This was my first time watching. Though it was inspiring to see the people of the Industry get their due, I was dissapointed with the onesidedness of it all. Was it always like this? Ishmael For the most part. Disney and DreamWorks also buy ASIFA memberships for hordes of their employees (not just those engaged in creative or managerial animation jobs) so they can engage in bloc voting for company product. Smaller studios can’t afford such strategic maneuvers. RCooke That may have been true in the past, but hasn’t been true for many years.

The Annies are older, less narrow, and far more prestigious than the ves awards. There have probably been shenanigans in recent years with the new “management” of Hollywood Asifa. But like the Oscars, the nominations and final votes are provided by all membership. otterhead “It’s hard to think of a more worthy winner than Inside Out (which ranks as one of Pixar’s very best in my book), but the fact that it ran the table on almost every feature award — not to mention that Disney won 75% of the awards that it was eligible for — raises serious questions about the Annies voting process…” So it was the most worthy film, but the fact that it won awards raises questions about whether those awards were actually earned? The article contradicts itself in order to find fault. Netko It was a great movie, my second favorite from Pixar, but that doesn’t mean that every single thing it did was better than any other movie that came out. You wouldn’t give the Creed the reward for best special effects just because it was a great movie. otterhead It didn’t. I believe it deserved the categories it won in.

It didn’t win in Special Effects; that award very deservedly went to the procedural clouds invented for Good Dinosaur. Netko You don’t find a single thing suspicious in the fact that Disney and Pixar always dominate these rewards? Same thing at the Oscars, no matter how subpar a Disney movie is compared to its competition it’s going to be picked. I’m not sure what to tell you if you think every single one of these awards is deserved, just that it’s not contradictory to think a movie is great while thinking, for instance, that its character designs are awful, which I do for Inside Out. I would not reward someone who can’t think of anything better to show disgust than a green girl. Personally I think the outstanding achievement in special effects should go to Peanuts, because the end result doesn’t look horrendous. I think special effects should not award tech demos, they should also consider how the effects are artistically incorporated. But I guess that’s irrelevant when the main thing that’s guiding your decisions is money so you gotta have a category that’s 100% sure to not be won by any of the small guys. Luckily we had Inside Out come out.

I’m not sure I could stand these ceremonies being rigged in favor of something like the Good dinosaur. Paul N How magnanimous of ASIFA Hollywood to throw a bone to video games with a single award for character animation. Never mind that there are far more animators and animation artists working in games, mobile apps, and motion graphics than in film and TV – let’s keep the focus where it’s always been. Why no character design award, concept art, voice acting..? ASIFA Hollywood has a very narrow view of what constitutes animation worth acknowledging. They need to become far more inclusive regarding ALL uses of animation in media. Their attitude is part of the reason I didn’t renew my long-standing membership. David Gibson Hi Paul, I think your comment is very much on point and I appreciate someone noticing the category. I’m really hoping that with my win over the weekend I can become more involved, or at least it’ll open a dialogue between ASIFA and myself, to help bring more recognition to all of the amazing work that is being done in the games industry. I want to be clear though that I don’t think all the attention should be focused towards ASIFA.

Game publishers and studios should become more involved as well and understand how important it is to show their support for their artists through industry awards such as the Annies. In a perfect world I’d love to see so many entries and the celebration of game animation get to a point that the Annies would have categories for AAA, Indie, and mobile development titles as well as character design, concept, etc. At the end of the day though…I’m proud to be a game animator and all game artists should be proud of the incredible work they are creating! Hankenshift Can you post some CHARACTER ANIMATION from video games so I can see what you’re talking about? I don’t see any games with character animation in them…but I may be looking in the wrong place. Most of the games I see have characters moving around, but they all move the same and have no personality or thought process. Are you talking about the introductions and stuff?

David Gibson Hi Hankenshift, here’s the character animation work that I won for on Saturday from Evolve: Here’s some of what I’m currently working on at Blizzard called Overwatch(everything in this trailer are ingame animations): Ori & The Blind Forest is another great example of character animation in a video game: Mark Walton I loved the animation on that dog-like reptile, as well as a few of the creatures that followed it on your reel! David Gibson Thank you so much Mark! Hankenshift Nice work, but I was referring specifically to “character animation.” Didn’t see much of that. Thanks, though. We’ve been passing your reel around at work, always amazing stuff! Love getting insight into your tools and process. :D Mark Walton I wouldn’t expect anyone outside of the ASIFA board to know any better, Paul, but it’s frankly amazing that the Annies bothered to have a video game category at all for all these years.

During my time on the board, I saw ASIFA reach out, year after year, to video game studios to submit something, ANYTHING, and they always had to dig up examples of great animation themselves, with no cooperation from anyone at the studios, and, much more often than not, when they gave an award, no-one from the studio would bother to show up and claim the award. (the last couple of years have been a welcome change to that trend). Hearing that this year’s winner wants to get involved and build bridges between ASIFA and the game industry is very welcome news. I agree that there are many talented people doing great work in video games that ought to be recognized, but traditionally, as a group, they’ve shown zero interest in or respect for ASIFA or the Annies. Congrats to the winners. The domination of Disney might warrant a different ind of awards, much like the Independent Spirit Awards is towards the Oscars.

Mark Walton Well, naturally, now that I have time to write this, the conversation has moved on long ago, but here are my two cents anyway: I well remember the controversy a few years back, when Kung Fu Panda, rather that Wall-E, swept the awards (nobody seemed that offended that “Bolt” didn’t take all the big prizes – sniff!), and when Disney, amid some jeering and a lot of cheering, withdrew from the Annies the following year (and somehow still managed to be nominated for and win some awards). Thanks to an attention-getting post I made here, at the time, on this very subject, I was invited to sit in on an ASIFA board meeting – the very meeting where Antran was voted out and Frank was voted in, because they realized that ASIFA couldn’t function without Disney’s support – I was an eyewitness to history! I saw a lot of changes – the ushering in of the studio board of directors, the further studio-demanded changes to the voting rules and categories that, increasingly, IMHO, disenfranchised students, fans, and studio employees who were not “creative” enough in their jobs to have a valid opinion about anything.

I saw the institution of what I thought was a better balance of professional judging with the “popular” vote, which should have made it less likely for a popular film to unfairly bulldoze the competition, and more likely for the most deserving nominees to win. I’ve seen the ASIFA board bend over backwards to be fair, to please all the studio giants, to make the Annies as prestigious, legitimate, respectable and inclusive as they were allowed to be, and still be snubbed by award-winners who can’t be bothered to show up, still get accused of being rigged by the losers and their acolytes, of being unworthy of notice or respect (particularly when a DreamWorks film won more than one or two awards – never mind the preponderance of Disney wins almost every other year). I still say what I said then: Entertainment awards are not fair, and they can’t be. As long as there are people’s subjective opinions involved, there will be disagreement over what’s really the best, even among people who are successful in the industry and equally respected by their peers. I don’t think Disney “rigged” these awards any more than I that I though Jeffrey Katzenberg “bought” the votes for “Kung Fu Panda”.

Both were exemplary films worthy of notice. Were they the absolute best in every category they won in? In my opinion, “KFP” actually was as good as it could be in every respect, but not everyone agreed. I think that the preponderance of Annie voters really think that “Inside Out” was, and I’d be hard pressed to prove them wrong, especially when looking at the great work they submitted for the voting process in every category. I think that when a film captures people’s hearts and imagination, that can color their objective judgement in certain respects. It’s also possible that the kind of writing, design, animation, etc. that would seem too simplistic or unsophisticated for one project might be exactly what’s needed for another. All this to say, despite the best efforts and intentions of most everyone involved, it’s not a perfect process. I am grieved whenever people dismiss the Annies out of hand for whatever reason. I really do believe that most, if not all, voters, actually try to watch all the materials in the categories they vote on, and try to vote their actual conscience, regardless of their employers or friends or enemies among the nominees.

(While it’s impossible to prove this, it’s equally impossible to prove otherwise, in spite of a certain, perhaps understandable amount of skepticism). I think that ASIFA tries very hard to be fair and honest, and to bring recognition to the best work of their colleagues. Perhaps there is a better way to do the nominations and voting, to avoid these kinds of “sweeps” and to “spread the wealth” more fairly – while I was on the board, my colleagues were continually exploring and implementing ways to do it better. The process has evolved considerably, and I bet it will continue to do so. These kinds of discussions are healthy as long as they don’t devolve into name-calling and denigrating the winners, who have worked hard and have every right to enjoy their plaudits. I am thrilled with many winners and bitterly disappointed with some who were snubbed within the same Annies ceremony, every year. I really wish that “Shaun the Sheep” (as well as other nominees) would have gotten more recognition, because I really thought that film was extraordinary and excellent where it most mattered, but I don’t begrudge the people who did win.

Conversely, while I thought all the nominees for Best Independent Feature were really, truly wonderful and worthy of recognition, I was absolutely THRILLED that the smallest, most eccentric, non-mainstream, non-traditional film in the category, that I absolutely loved, but assumed was the biggest longshot, actually won! (And I think creating the “Independent” category was a really good idea). Every studio, artist, and fan will eventually take at least one turn at being “robbed” – that’s as fair as it gets. The best I can hope for is that all of the films that earn the nomination are worthy of winning, and that most of us can be as happy and graceful as possible when they do win. Mark Walton Inside Out wins big at Annie animation awards - BBC News BBC News Inside Out wins big at Annie animation awards 7 February 2016 Close share panel Image copyright AP Image caption Inside Out will compete for the Oscar with Anomalisa, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There Inside Out was the big winner at this year's Annie Awards for animation on Saturday. The film won 10 prizes including best animated feature and best director for Pete Docter.

The Disney/Pixar film beat fellow nominees Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Peanuts Movie and The Good Dinosaur. Inside Out, which travels into the mind of an 11-year-old girl, is nominated for two Oscars, including best animated feature. Despite not winning the top prize, 3-D adventure The Good Dinosaur, also from Pixar - about the young dinosaur Arlo who becomes friends with a human - won the award for best animated effects. Overall, Pixar took home 11 awards. He Named Me Malala, the documentary about the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an attack by the Taliban, earned the award for animated special production. Though a documentary, the film uses animated sequences to tell mythical elements of Malala's story, as well as trying to tell the story of her life in Pakistan. Oscar hopes Boy and the World - a film about the young boy Cuca who has to survive alone when his father leaves in search of work - received the Annie for the best animated independent feature.

Image copyright PATHE Image caption He Named Me Malala was made by the director Davis Guggenheim, who spent 18 months filming the schoolgirl and her family This is the first year of this award following the decision of Asifa-Hollywood, the organisation behind the Annies, to split the best animated feature category into two to give less-seen films a chance at a prize. In the TV categories, long-running hit series The Simpsons took home the best animated TV show award. Disney also did well, taking home five awards - three for Disney Mickey Mouse, one for Wander Over Yonder and the other for Gravity Falls. Boy and the World will compete with Inside Out again for the best animated feature Oscar at the Academy Awards on 28 February. Anomalisa, Shaun the Sheep Movie and When Marnie Was There are also nominated. The Annie Awards and the Oscars have not always seen eye to eye, since the best animated feature Oscar category was introduced in 2001. Last year, How to Train Your Dragon 2 won the best feature Annie, while the Academy Award for best animation went to Big Hero 6.

Annie Award Nominations 2012 Annie Award Nominations 2012 26 The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for its 40th Annual Annie Awards , recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominations for Best Animated Features totals eight this year and include: Brave (Pixar), Frankenweenie (Disney), Hotel Transylvania (Sony Animation), ParaNorman (Laika), The Pirates: Band Of Misfits (Aardman/Sony Animation), The Rabbi’s Cat (Autochenille Production/GKids), Rise Of The Guardians (Dreamworks Animation), Wreck-It Ralph (Disney). The Winsor McCay Award for lifetime achievement goes to Disney veteran Mark Henn, Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam and independent animator Oscar Grillo; and the June Foray Award for “significant and charitable impact on the art and industry of animation” will be presented to Disney communications VP (and every animation historian’s best-friend) Howard Green.

The 2012 Annie Award winners will be announced at the Annie Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013, at UCLA’s Royce Hall, in Los Angeles, CA. A pre-reception begins at 5:00 pm with the awards ceremony following at 7:00 pm. A post-show celebration immediately follows the ceremony. For ticket and event information, please visit annieawards.org . PARTNER MESSAGE The complete list of nominees is below: PRODUCTION CATEGORIES The Pirates: Band of Misfits — Aardman Animation/Sony Animation The Rabbi’s Cat — Autochenille Production/GKids Rise of The Guardians — DreamWorks Animation Wreck-It Ralph — Disney Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 – Warner Bros. Animation Before Orel – Trust – Starburns Industries, Inc. Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem – Illumination Entertainment Disney Tron: Uprising – Beck’s Beginning – Disney TV Animation Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury – DreamWorks Animation Justice League: Doom – Warner Bros.

Animation Best Animated Short Subject Eyes On The Stars (StoryCorps) Goodnight Mr Foot (Sony Animation) Kali The Little Vampire (NFB) Paperman (Disney) Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare (20th Century-Fox) The Simpsons – Bill Plympton Couch Gag (20th Century-Fox) Best General Audience Animated TV Production For Preschool Children Bubble Guppies ‘A Tooth on the Looth’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Chuggington ‘Magnetic Wilson’ – Ludorum Jake & The Never Land Pirates ‘Peter Pan Returns’ – Disney TV Animation Doc McStuffins ‘The Right Stuff’ – Disney TV Animation Justin Time ‘Marcello’s Meatballs’ – Guru Studio Best Animated Television Production For Children Adventure Time ‘Princess Cookie’ – Cartoon Network Studios Dragons: Riders of Berk ‘How to Pick Your Dragon’ – DreamWorks Animation LEGO Star Wars ‘The Empire Strikes Out’ – Threshold Animation Studios Penguins of Madagascar ‘Action Reaction’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios SpongeBob SquarePants ‘It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Amazing World of Gumball ‘The Job’ – Turner Broadcasting System Europe, Ltd.

The Fairly OddParents ‘Farm Pit’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios The Legend of Korra ‘Welcome to Republic City’/’A Leaf in the Wind’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Best General Audience Animated Television Production Archer ‘Space Race, Part 1’ – Weissman Markovitz Communications for FX BOB’S BURGERS ‘Earsy Rider’ – 20th Century Fox TV Motorcity ‘Blond Thunder’ – Disney TV Animation MAD ‘FrankenWinnie/ParaMorgan’ – Warner Bros.

Animation Robot Chicken ‘DC Comics Special’ – Stoopid Buddy Studios South Park ‘Raising the Bar’ – Central Productions Animated Video Game Family Guy – Back to the Mutiverse – Heavy Iron Studios Journey – Sony Computer Entertainment America Skullgirls – Lab Zero Games Can We Be Happy Now – Tahnee Gehm Defective Detective – Avner Geller & Steve Lewis Head Over Heels – Timothy Reckart I Am Tom Moody – Ainslie Henderson Ladies Knight – Joseph Rothenberg The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete – Uri Lotan, Elizabeth McMahill and Adam Campbell Tule Lake – Michelle Ikemoto Animated Effects in an Animated Production Andrew Nawrot, Joe Gorski, Grant Laker – ‘ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Andrew Schneider ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ – Blue Sky Studios Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, David Lipton – Rise of the Guardians – DreamWorks Animation Bill Watral, Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Keith Klohn, Michael K.

O’Brien ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Brett Albert – ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Jihyun Yoon – ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ – DreamWorks Animation Joel Aron – ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ – Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Animated Effects in a Live Action Production Jerome Platteaux, John Sigurdson, Ryan Hopkins, Raul Essig, Mark Chataway ‘The Avengers’ – Industrial Light & Magic Stephen Marshall, Joseph Pepper, Dustin Wicke ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ – Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation Sue Rowe, Simon Stanley-Clamp, Artemis Oikonomopoulou, Holger Voss, Nikki Makar, Catherine Elvidge ‘John Carter’ – Cinesite Willi Geiger, Rick Hankins, Florent Andorra, Florian Witzel, Aron Bonar ‘Battleship’ – Industrial Light & Magic Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Dan Driscoll ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Jennifer Dickie ‘Justin Time: Yodel Odel Day’ – Guru Studio Keith Kellogg ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Revenge’ – Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Forrest Savelen ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Shi Zimu ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk’ – DreamWorks Animation Sihanouk Marinona ‘Before Orel: Trust’ – Starburns Industries, Inc. Teri Yam ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk’ – DreamWorks Animation Yan Jiazhuang ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk’ – DreamWorks Animation Character Animation in a Feature Production Dan Nguyen ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios David Pate ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Jaime Landes ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Phillppe LeBrun ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Pierre Perifel ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Travis Hathaway ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Travis Knight “ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Will Becher ‘The Pirates!

Band of Misfits’ – Aardman Animations Character Animation in a Live Action Production Erik de Boer, Amanda Dague, Matt Brown, Mary Lynn Machado, Aaron Grey ‘Life of Pi – Orangutan’ – Rhythm & Hues Studio Erik de Boer, Matt Shumway, Brian Wells, Vinayak Pawar, Michael Holzl ‘Life of Pi – Tiger’ – Rhythm & Hues Studio Jakub Pistecky, Maia Kayser, Scott Benzu, Steve King, Kiran Bhat ‘The Avengers’ – Industrial Light & Magic Mike Beaulieu, Roger Vizard, Atushi Sato, Jackie Kochler, Derek Esparza, Richard Smith, Mac Tyrie – Columbia Pictures – THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN – Sony Pictures Animation Character Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Andy Bialk ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk: Alvin and the Outcasts’ – DreamWorks Animaton Andy Suriano ‘DC Nation-Plastic Man: The Many and the Fowl’ – Big Hair Productions, Inc.

Bryan Konietzko, Joaquim Dos Santos, Ryu Ki-Hyun, Kim Il Kwang, Kim Jin Sun ‘The Legend of Korra: Welcome to Republic City’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios “C” Raggio IV ‘Kick Buttowski: Petrified’ – Disney TV Animation Derrick Wyatt, Chap Yaep, Steven Choi ‘Ben 10: Omniverse: The More Things Change, Pt. 2’ – Cartoon Network Studios Gordon Hammond ‘T.U.F.F.

Puppy: Dudley Do-Wrong’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Robert Valley ‘Disney Tron: Uprising: The Renegade, Part I’ – Disney TV Animation Thaddeus Paul Cauldron ‘Secret Mountain Fort Awesome: Secret Mountain Uncle Grandpa’- Cartoon Network Studios Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Bill Schwab, Lorelay Bove, Cory Loftis, Minkyu Lee ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Carlos Grangel ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Carter Goodrich ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Craig Kellman ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ – DreamWorks Animation Heidi Smith ‘ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Yarrow Cheney, Eric Guillon, Colin Stimpson ‘Dr.

Seuss’ The Lorax’ – Illumination Entertainment Directing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Howie Parkins ‘Jake and The Never Land Pirates: Peter Pan Returns!’ – Disney TV Animation John Eng ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk: Animal House’ – DreamWorks Animation Mark Cabalero, Seamus Walsh ‘SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s a Spongebob Christmas’’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Mic Graves ‘The Amazing World of Gumball: The Job’ – Turner Broadcasting System Europe Ltd.

Michael Chang ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Never Say Xever’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studio Zack Keller ‘Dick Figures: Kung Fu Winners’ – 6 Point Media Directing in an Animated Feature Production Genndy Tartakovsky ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Joann Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux ‘The Rabbi’s Cat – GKIDS Remi Bezancon, Jean-Christophe Lie ‘Zarafa’ – GKIDS Rich Moore ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Sam Fell, Chris Butler ‘ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Music in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Adam Berry ‘Penquins of Madagascar: Private and the Winky Factory’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Alf Clausen ‘The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXIII’ – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV Frederik Wiedmann ‘Green Lantern The Animated Series: Into the Abyss’ – F. Wiedmann, Composer Guy Moon ‘T.U.F.F.

Puppy: Really Big Mission’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios John Paesano ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk: How to Pick Your Dragon’ – DreamWorks Animation Michael Rubin ‘Bubble Guppies: Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairytale!’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Music in an Animated Feature Production Alexandre Desplat ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Bruce Retief ‘Adventures in Zambezia’ – Saltzman Communications Henry Jackman ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Joel McNeely, Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda ‘Secret of the Wings’ – DisneyToon Studios John Powell, Adam Schlesinger, Ester Dean ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ – Blue Sky Studios John Powell, Cinco Paul ‘Dr.

Seuss’ The Lorax’ – Illumination Entertainment Mark Mothersbaugh ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Patrick Doyle, Mark Andrews, Alex Mandel ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Production Design in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Alberto Mielgo ‘Tron: Uprising: The Stranger’ – Disney TV Animation Ian Worrel ‘Gravity Falls – Tourist Trapped’ – Disney TV Animation Lynna Blankenship, Sean Coons, Hugh Macdonald, Debbie Peterson, Charles Ragins, Lance Wilder, Darrel Bowen, John Krause, Kevin Moore, Brent M. Bowen, Brice Mallier, Steven Fahey, Dima Malanitchev, Karen Bauer, Eli Balser, Anne Legge – ‘The Simpsons: Moe Goes From Rags to Riches’ – Film Roman Nick Jennings, Martin Ansolebehere, Sandra Calleros, Ron Russell, Santino Lascano, Derek Hunter, Catherine E.

Simmonds – ‘Adventure Time – The Hard Easy’ – Cartoon Network Studios Peter Martin, Chris Grine, Ira Baker, Ramon Olivera, Scott Brown ‘hoops & yo yo’s Haunted Halloween’ – Hallmark Scott Brandon James, Lee Keith ‘Justin Time: The Rubbery Dumplings’ – Guru Studio Production Design in an Animated Feature Production Kendal Cronkhite-Shaindlin, Shannon Jeffries, Lindsey Olivares, Kenard Pak ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ – DreamWorks Animation Marcello Vignali ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Nash Dunnigan, Arden Chen, Jon Townley, Kyle McNaughton ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ – Blue Sky Studios Nelson Lowry, Ross Stewart, Pete Oswald, Ean McNamara, Trevor Dalmer ‘ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Norman Garwood, Matt Berry ‘The Pirates!

Band of Misfits’ – Aardman Animation Patrick Hanenberger, Max Boas, Jayee Borcar, Woonyoung Jung, Perry Maple, Peter Maynez, Stan Seo, Felix Yoon ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Rick Heintzich ‘Frankenweenie’ – The Walt Disney Studios Steve Pilcher ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Storyboarding in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Andy Kelly ‘Doc McStuffins: Righty-On-Lefty’ – Disney TV Animation Cole Sanchez, Rebecca Sugar ‘Adventure Time: Lady & Peebles’ – Cartoon Network Studios Doug Lovelace ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk: Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Man’ – DreamWorks Animation Holly Forsyth ‘Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess’ – Disney TV Animation Irineo Marramba, Ciro Nieli ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman’’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Robert Valley, Kalvin Lee ‘Tron: Uprising: The Reward’ – Disney TV Animation Ryan Kramer, Paul Linsley, Kenji Ono, Le Tang, Alice Herring, Mike Mullen, Aaron Hammersley

 ‘Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness: Enter the Dragon’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Tom Herpich, Skyler Page ‘Adventure Time: Goliad’ – Cartoon Network Studios Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production Emmanuela Cozzi ‘ParaNorman’ – Focus Features Johanne Matte ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Leo Matsuda ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Lissa Treiman ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Rob Koo ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ – DreamWorks Animation Voice Acting in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production James Patrick Stuart as Private ‘Penguins of Madagascar: High Moltage’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Jeff Bennett as Keswick ‘T.U.F.F.

Puppy: Pup Daddy’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Jessica Walter as Malory Archer ‘Archer: Lo Scandolo’ – Weissman Markovitz Communications for FX Network Kevin Michael Richardson as Willem Viceroy ‘Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Gossip Boy’ – Disney TV Animation Kristen Schaal as Mabel Pines ‘Gravity Falls: Tourist Trapped’ – Disney TV Animation Mae Whitman as April O’Neil – ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rise of the Turtles’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Sam Witwer as Darth Maul ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Revenge’ – Lucasfilm Animation Ltd. Tom McGrath as Skipper ‘Penguins of Madagascar: The Otter Woman’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production Adam Sandler as Dracula ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Alan Tudyk as King Candy ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios Atticus Shaffer as “E”Gore ‘Frankenweenie’ – The Walt Disney Studios Catherine O’Hara as Weird Girl ‘Frankenweenie’ – The Walt Disney Studios Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria ‘The Pirates!

Band of Misfits’ – Aardman Animations Jim Cummings as Budzo ‘Adventures in Zambezia’ – Saltzman Communications Jude Law as Pitch ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Kelly MacDonald as Merida ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Writing in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Doug Langdale – Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness: Kung Fu Day Care’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Eric Horsted – Futurama: The Bots and the Bees’ – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV Gabe Garza – ‘Penguins of Madagascar: Endangerous Species’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Ian Maxtone-Graham, Billy Kimball ‘The Simpsons: How I Wet Your Mother’ – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV Kacey Arnold – ‘Robot and Monster: The Blimp’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Mike Teverbaugh, Linda Teverbaugh – Dragons: Riders of Berk: Animal House’ – DreamWorks Animation Stephanie Gillis ‘The Simpsons: A Tree Grows in Springfield’ – Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV Trey Parker – ‘South Park: Jew

pacabra’ – Central Productions Writing in an Animated Feature Production Chris Butler – ParaNorman – Focus Features Gideon Defoe – The Pirates!

Band of Misfits – Aardman Animations Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa, Karey Kirkpatrick – From Up on Poppy Hill – GKIDS John August – Frankenweenie – The Walt Disney Studios Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman, Irene Mecchi – Brave – Pixar Animation Studios Phil Johnston, Jennifer Lee – Wreck-It Ralph – Walt Disney Animation Studios Editorial in an Animated Television Production Bret Marnell ‘Puss in Boots: Three Diablos’ – DreamWorks Animation Chris Hink ‘Robot and Monster: Cheer Up Mr. Wheelie’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Hugo Morales, Adam Arnold, Davrik Waeden, Otto Ferraye ‘Kung Fu Panda: ‘Monkey in the Middle’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Hugo Morales, Adam Arnold, Davrik Waeden, Otto Ferraye ‘Kung Fu Panda – Enter the Dragon’ – Nickelodeon Animation Studios Jason Tucker ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Revival’ – Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.

Lynn Hobson ‘Dragons: Riders of Berk: Animal House’ – DreamWorks Animation Pieter Kaufman ‘Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess’ – Disney TV Animation Steffie Lucchesi, Matt Steinauer, May Blaisdell ‘Dan Vs Monster Under The Bed’ – Film Roman Editorial in an Animated Feature Production Catherine Apple ‘Hotel Transylvania’ – Sony Pictures Animation Joyce Arrastia ‘Rise of the Guardians’ – DreamWorks Animation Mark Rosenbaum ‘Secret of the Wings’ – DisneyToon Studios Nicholas A. Smith, ACE, Robert Graham Jones, ACE, David Suther ‘Brave’ – Pixar Animation Studios Tim Mertens ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ – Walt Disney Animation Studios JURIED AWARDS Winsor McCay Award – Oscar Grillo, Terry Gilliam, Mark Henn June Foray Award – Howard Green Ub Iwerks Award – Toon Boom Animation Pipeline How did they get “Rick Heinrichs” wrong? Confusion Gumball has really upped it’s ante in the second season, and I’m pleased to see ‘The Job’ got on there. That episode was absolutely amazing, especially in it’s final act.

Of all the other nominations in it’s category, I’d personally say it’s the most deserving of the award. As an aside, it’s nice to see Justin time in the preschool catagory. It really is a lovely looking kid’s show. Hopefully Vodka Capital can get some of their work nominated some day too.

Question: For which type of entertainment are 'Annies' awarded?
Answer: ANIMATED FILM